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Definition of Tappings
1. tapping [n] - See also: tapping
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tappings
Literary usage of Tappings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"RADIATOR tappings 3O. Standard Sizes.—It is customary for radiator manufacturers
to tap their radiators in accordance with a tapping list; radiators are ..."
2. "The Kentuckian" by Isaac Marshall Page (1906)
"The fortunes of State College may rise and fall, and the tappings of Prexy and
the scolding of Aunt Lucy forever close, but the name of "Jack" will go down ..."
3. A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery and Their Allied Sciences by New Sydenham Society (1875)
"... it. which he followed up at a later period, finding the patient (ib., xv, 172)
going on well after repeated small tappings some months before. ..."
4. Electric Traction: A Treatise on the Application of Electric Power to by Alfred Thomas Dover (1917)
"The voltage ratio for tappings 180 (electrical) degrees apart will be the same
as that for a single-phase rotary converter | ie 0-707( = — ^sin? ..."
5. Impotence and Sterility: With Aberrations of the Sexual Function and Sex by George Frank Lydston (1917)
"Always a hard drinker and a gourmand; no history of syphilis; Wassermann negative;
history of two tappings for ascites, six l''ig. 9. ..."
6. Ovarian tumors: Their Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment, Especially by by Edmund Randolph Peaslee (1872)
"Coexistence of ascites. Previous tappings. Temperament and disposition of patient.
Social position. Previous and concomitant diseases. ..."
7. Impotence and Sterility: With Aberrations of the Sexual Function and Sex by George Frank Lydston (1917)
"Always a hard drinker and a gourmand; no history of syphilis; Wassermann negative;
history of two tappings for ascites, six Fig. 9.—Showing area of probably ..."
8. The Medical Times and Gazette (1863)
"They renounced the extirpation of ovarian cysts, and treated them by repeated
tappings, and in later years by iodine injections, which, in cases of timple ..."
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